Should Square Let Another Developer Make A Final Fantasy Title? - Final Fantasy Union

GamingUnion: "Final Fantasy Union is back again to talk about all things FF, and this time around, we have an extra long show for you. This week, Darryl is joined by Colin and Lauren and they jump straight into the fray. Unfortunately, there isn't much news this week, but the gang spends a bit of time talking about Theatrhythm and its release date."

For a Mainstream Final Fantasy XV? It could potentially do a lot hurt. Especially in Japan, because I don't know if Western developers can nail the character design like Nomura and Amano have in the past.

But for a spin off game, or a new game in The Fabula Nova Crystallis Compilation, I think it couldn't hurt. I would love to see it happen but ONLY provided it wasn't a numbered iteration of Final Fantasy.

hahaha, I immediately thought of Western Developers. But Well the title says "Another Developer" so that includes both Western and Japanese developers. But if you logically think about it, who would Square most likely license FF to considering their desired appeal to the Western Audience? I don't think they would just give it to just another Japanese developer.

it would be smart if SE gave a spin-off Final Fantasy to a different developer but wrote the story and overlooked the project.

it would be absolutely retarded to give a main Final Fantasy game to another developer. SE has a certain style to their FF games that i typically enjoy. Versus XIII will be amazing, but after that it'd be smart if they give a spin-off to someone else so they can concentrate on their more important projects. i don't think many people care about Final Fantasy Type-0.

Burn him alive for this sacrilege, first FFX-2 then FF13 and he had to make things even worse with 13-2. I mean, he wrote the story of 3rd Birthday and look how he destroyed the Parasite Eve franchise in his first try and now he wants to do the same with FF. But FF is too big to die after a couple of bad games so there's still time, just get rid of him already! ;_;

Squaresoft is dead folks. The Square and Enix merge, along with Sakaguchi leaving along with many other Square members, left Square-Enix into a company that will eventually rot away into who knows what.

No. Then I really don't think it could feel like an FF at all. Yea FF13 didn't really feel like FF all that much but I think the devlopers like Kitase learn and try to listen to fans. Look at 13-2, they attempted to fix a lot of the problems fans had. I think they should still handle it. If it leaves Square it shouldn't be called FF because FF is the only reason Square is around and it's their game and should never go anywhwere else.

When dragon quest is developed by bioware, or ubisoft makes the next mainline mario, or obsidian does tales, or thq makes the next disgaea, or the next pokemon comes from gameloft, or the next shin megami comes from bethesda then get back to me

I wonder what Sakaguchi would say if they commissioned Mistwalker to make one...

I think it's Toriyama that's bringing it down. Versus'll be better because Kazushige Nojima has greater input. It's a shame he didn't have as much control for XIII.

Daisuke Watanabe, Kazushige Nojima and Hironobu Sakaguchi are the recipe for a good Final Fantasy story. Then again X and X-2 were amazing without much input from Sakaguchi, so yeah, the first two would probably suffice. Motomu Toriyama's direction just needs some serious policing.

I was kind of actually thinking about this, fans scream for a FF VII remake all the time. Why not lego remake it. Clone Wars was actually a visual treat, and I think TT would do a perfect job. Plus the characters would retain their original blocky shape.

I think they should go on a hiatus for a while, really take the time and look at where things are going wrong. Fire a few obvious people ;) And in 3 years time when things have settled from last few shit instalments realese the brand ff and bring back the magic that it once had.

It's kinda funny that Monolithsoft and [supposedly, I don't know firsthand, yet] Mistwalker have brought the genre back into a bit of it's former mainstream glory. I thought XIII-2 was definitely a step in the right direction, but there's still a ways to go. Co-development between Western and Japanese houses is key to reviving the franchise.